Butter- worker



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Butter Worker.

YPaented YJuly 25, 185.4.

En N UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

ELIHU RING, OF MECKLENBURG, NEW YORK.

BUTTERfWORKER.

` p Specification of Letters PatentNo. 11,387, dated July 25, 1854.

n To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIHU RING, of Meck-` lenburg, in the county ofTompkins and y, State of New York, have invented certain `new and usefulImprovements in Machines `for W'orking Butter; and I do hereby declarethat the same are described and represented in the followingspecifications and drawings.

To enable others skilled in theart to make and use my improvements, Iwillproceedto describe their construction and operation,

referring `to the drawings, in which the same letters `indicate likeparts: in Ieach of the figures.

Figure l, is chine. Fig. 2 is i a sectional elevation through the line.e z of Fig. l. 4 b

I make a frame in the formrepresented with three parallel bars A A1 A2,and two ends B B. The cleats C C are fastened to the rails A A1 and arebeveled so as to receive the cleats D fastened to the bottom of the boxE( The box E is made in` the form represented in the dra-wing and thereis a groove F in the sides and one end for .the cover to slide in; and agroot/*e in each t side about half way betweenthe top and bottom for thesplines or strips G G which splines are provided with a dovetailingscore for the keys a` cz to prevent the splines from working out by theoperation of the piston II which is made in the form represented andprovided with scores for the splines G Gr which holds the piston H in aproper position in the box and permits it to traverse when operated bythe link I and crank J, which crank is upon the shaft L; which shaft istted to turn in the boxes INI M fastened to the stands N N upbn therails A A as represented in the drawing. The shaft L is provided with afly wheel O, and hand winch P by which the machine may be operated. Theblock Q (which is about the same size of the piston) is made in the formrepresented and provided with scores for the splines G G which hold itin its proper position and allows it to traverse when acted upon by thebutter or piston I-I which forces it back against the spring R whichspring forces it forward against, as the piston is withdrawn. The springR is made in the form represented and provided with a shank a plan ortop view of the ma-` fitted to the slot S in the bottom of the box E thelower end of the shank of the spring being furnished with'a screw nut tofasten it in the position required. The holes T T `may be scored orindented or furnished with protuberances if it should be necessary ordesirable.

The machine being constructed and completed as above described. Theinside of the box, the piston and block Q should be wet with water toprevent the butter from adhereing to them. The winch should be turned soas to draw the piston back and the butter to be worked placed in the boxbetween the piston and the block Q, when the piston may be operated byturning the winch so as to compress the butter and force out thebuttermilk; the spring R permitting the block Qto yield as the butter isforced against it, until the layer of butter is pressed so thin that themachineceases to produce any effect upon it; when the machine may bestopped and the layer of butter may be doubled over so as to form two ormore thicknesses between the piston and the block Q and the machine putin operation again.

The abovementioned process may berepeated until the butter is worked asmuch as may be necessary or desirable; and by changing the position ofthe spring R the block Q may be set so as to adapt the machine to thequantity of butter to be worked.

WhatI claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent inthe above described machine for working butter, is

Arranging the block Q to traverse as described in combination with thespring R or its equivalent to force it forward in the operation ofworking butter substantially as described.

ELIHU RING.

Witnesses:

DANIEL PHILBRICK, Jr., DAVE) PosT.

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